We all know that Rare has a lot riding on Sea of Thieves, and that it would look terrible if Sea of Thieves failed to recoup development costs, but here's something optimistic but probably unrealistic I thought of; What if Nintendo reacquired Rare from Microsoft?

Yes we've discussed it before, and yes much of the old Rare people have left, but they're also bringing in new talent as well. :)

If Sea of Thieves failed, but Nintendo bought back Rare, what would happen? Would they make new Nintendo games, revive old ones, what?

I doubt Nintendo would buy back Rare, but sometimes I expect the unexpected.

My opinion is that Nintendo would have someone like Tanabe oversee game development and then immediately get them started on familiar/safe projects like Donkey Kong and Banjo-Kazooie to give Nintendo an idea of what they have to work with and to get everyone at Rare acclimated to the regime change. After that, I suspect Nintendo would keep on assigning projects to Rare until they've earned the right to have more creative autonomy.

My opinion is that Nintendo would have someone like Tanabe oversee game development and then immediately get them started on familiar/safe projects like Donkey Kong and Banjo-Kazooie to give Nintendo an idea of what they have to work with and to get everyone at Rare acclimated to the regime change. After that, I suspect Nintendo would keep on assigning projects to Rare until they've earned the right to have more creative autonomy.

That sounds good. :)

Ka-pi96 said:Why would Nintendo want to buy a such a bad dev? All Rare have got going for them is their name... and even that is heavily tarnished now!

That's mostly because of Microsoft mishandling Rare IPs like Conker and Banjo, but thankfully Killer Instinct escaped the curse.

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Anyways I think if Nintendo bought Rare theyd mostly use them for the rights to mascots. Adding in nostalgia to Smash. But theyd probably also fire and hire new employees for a game. What game that would be idk.